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Eduforcement

When I introduced the OSMF, many people told me it would not work unless some sort of license enforcement mechanism was in place. I disagreed and instead focused on education. It turns out we were both right.

WiX Toolset 304 GitHub Sponsors

WiX Toolset surpasses 300 sponsors

Eight months ago WiX had 99 sponsors. Today it has 304. The Open Source Maintenance Fee is working and ready.

Forty Nine

Today I turn 49. A lot has improved in the last year. So, as is tradition, let's take this time on my birthday to review it.

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Open Source Maintenance Fee v1.1

Since it's release almost a year ago now, I've been collecting feedback on the Open Source Maintenance Fee. Earlier this week, I integrated a piece of feedback that deserved to bump the version number. Let's talk about the change that produced OSMF v1.1.

Deployment Dojo

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Debugging the Dojo
S1:E48
Debugging the Dojo
Finding Files using WiX v4
S1:E44
What's a WXL?
S1:E15
What's a WXL?
Refining WiX v4 Kata 0
S1:E2